Former Texas Senator Wendy Davis is Inspiring an NBC Drama series

Davis, who lost the Texas governor’s race in 2014 and who famously filibustered an abortion bill for 11 hours in 2013, will be used as inspiration for a Good Wife-like drama about a fictional female Democratic senator who pieces her life together after losing the Texas governor’s race. Davis will serve as a producer.

"There’s so much rape, so much f*cking, and so much blood that even normal things in the show begin to look disgusting,” says Puja Patel. "You squirm at the sight of a perfectly regular plate of sushi, and cringe at the sight of a drug addict slathering lipstick all over her face. Some might say that’s a success of the show—that it’s so viscerally gross that even fans can only prepare themselves for the worst—but it mostly plays like the sort of torture porn that fit better when it showed up in Coven (via a racist women torturing her slaves) or Asylum (via the cruel experiments carried out on the mentally unsound). Here, without context, watching someone get raped while being forced to declare his love to the person allowing it is a less logical and even cruder display.” PLUS: Ryan Murphy needs to stop with his unpleasant shock-and-awe storytelling of attrition, and Hotel has a huge debut with 5.8 million viewers.

"I have one of the top cardiologists in the country who's amazing,” says the Real Housewives star. "Anything that has to do with you heart and brain is pretty scary, but heck, I've been through it. I'm okay.”

"You know, it was actually totally news to me," Willis said of this week’s revelation by CW casting director David Rapaport. "I felt like I did an awful audition back then. I was so young and it was, like, one of the first things I'd ever auditioned for."